The ontological question: What is sound? is typically inflected in a Platonic fashion. It asks after the unitary nature of audibilia. Main Kinds of Auditory Ontology Proximal – sounds are private, non-representational sensations or qualia Medial – ‘sounds are compressive waves in an elastic medium’ (Locke) Locative – sounds are ‘found where they are heard’ […]
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Predictive Coding and Brassier’s Freedom
I’m currently revisiting earlier work on Brassier’s (20b13a) short text on improvisation with a view to using the Predictive Coding (PC) account of cognition and agency as framework for understanding the role of improvisation and similar performance in our cognitive economy. The key take home that paper, I think, is its picture of a not-necessarily-human […]
A dazzling musical onomatopoeia from one of the best young composers out there.
Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics
Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/excess-machine-culture-three-plateaus-on-noise-aesthetics/
Philosophy and Computer Music
Poster presented at 1st Workshop on Philosophy of Human+Computer Music Royal Musical Association Music Philosophy Study Group workshop on philosophy of human+computer music, 4 July 2014.
Promethean and Posthuman Freedom: Brassier on Improvisation and Time
This is the full text of my presentation at the improvisation panel at The Society of European Philosophy-Forum of European Philosophy joint conference in Dundee, 2015. ************************************************************ 1) Introduction: Improvisation and the Politics of Technology Ray Brassier’s “Unfree Improvisation/Compulsive Freedom” (written for the 2013 collaboration with Basque noise artist Mattin at Glasgow’s Tramway) […]
Improvising Time: Ray Brassier and all that Jazz
What follows is a reworking of material in my earlier post on Ray Brassier and Improvisation. It’s part of a longer work in progress exploring whether aesthetic creativity can function as a model for decision-making in a posthuman (or Promethean) world. All comments and criticisms will be gratefully received. ******************************************************************************************* 1) Introduction: Improvisation and Agency Ray […]
Pete Furniss improvising with C-C-Combine
Ajkad Csupa Vér – Pete Furniss, clarinet & live electronics from furnerino on Vimeo. Live improvisation by clarinettist Pete Furniss using C-C-Combine – a concatenative synthesis patch built by Rodrigo Constanzo in Max MSP. On his website, Rodrigo explains that concatenative synthesis is a form of granular synthesis employing modulation via sound sources rather than prescribed parameters […]
Compulsive Freedom: Brassier and Improvisation
Ray Brassier’s “Unfree Improvisation/Compulsive Freedom” (written for the 2013 event at Glasgow’s Tramway Freedom is a Constant Struggle) is a terse but insightful discussion of the notion of freedom in improvisation. It begins with a polemic against the voluntarist conception of freedom. The voluntarist understands free action as the uncaused expression of a “sovereign self”. Brassier […]
